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SVF I: Cleanthes

Name: SVF I: Cleanthes
Author: Cleanthes

Cleanthes

This von Arnim section gathers ancient witnesses to Cleanthes without turning them into a continuous book.

Composition: 3rd century BCE; fragments and testimonia transmitted later
Sources and precision
The position locates claims attributed to Cleanthes. Von Arnim’s collection dates from 1905; each witness has its own date.
Confidence D · disputed range
Blakeney Hymn, Pearson fragments, and Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta I
Tradition: Stoicism
Period: Antiquity
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 36 passages · 16,537 words

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What you will learn

Compare von Arnim's ordering with Pearson's division, recover each claim's carrier, then test agreement among order, judgment, and action.

Short summary

This von Arnim section gathers ancient witnesses to Cleanthes without turning them into a continuous book.

Long summary

Cleanthes’ prose books are lost. These von Arnim pages mix Greek or Latin quotations, paraphrases, testimony, objections, and modern apparatus.

The canonical unit remains the SVF I page, retaining its own carriers and editorial composition. OCR and labeled AI translations support controlled paraphrase; verbatim quotation still requires facsimile collation.

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The table of contents follows the divisions actually carried by the corpus.

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The world around the text

The corpus manifests do not yet establish the precise place and circumstances of composition. The images below document the author’s world or the text’s transmission. They do not claim to show the exact scene of writing.

These are modern reconstructions. They situate a documented place, practice, or transmission and are not period documents.

Modern reconstruction of Assos for SVF I: Cleanthes on Prokopton42.com — **Assos**Traditional birthplace. The generated scene uses Assos and c. 330 BCE as its documented anchors.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Stoicism

Modern reconstruction of Material world: technology, science, and care, 146 BCE for SVF I: Cleanthes on Prokopton42.com — **Material world: technology, science, and care, 146 BCE**Rome destroys Corinth and dominates Greece politically, while Greek philosophy increasingly shapes Roman elites. The image situates SVF I: Cleanthes without claiming to show its scene of composition.

Modern reconstruction of Material world: transport and communication, 334–323 BCE for SVF I: Cleanthes on Prokopton42.com — **Material world: transport and communication, 334–323 BCE**Alexander’s conquests open the Hellenistic age, where Greek schools spread far beyond Athens. The image situates SVF I: Cleanthes without claiming to show its scene of composition.

What the world looked like

World of 1989

Modern reconstruction of the material world around SVF I: Cleanthes: Technology, science, and care — **Technology, science, and care**Personal computers, satellites, video, industrial robots, and expensive mobile phones exist, but the public Web does not yet. Computing, genetics, climate science, cosmology, and medical imaging produce growing data and international collaboration. CT, MRI, transplantation, vaccines, and intensive care advance; the AIDS epidemic exposes both medical capacity and its limits.

Modern reconstruction of the material world around SVF I: Cleanthes: Travel and communication — **Travel and communication**Cars, high-speed rail, metros, aircraft, and containers globalize people and goods. Fixed telephones, fax, television, radio, and newspapers predominate. Email and computer networks remain mainly professional or academic.

Modern reconstruction of the material world around SVF I: Cleanthes: Farming and food — **Farming and food**Machinery, chemical inputs, breeding, and cold chains support high yields with increasingly debated social and environmental costs.

Modern reconstruction of the material world around SVF I: Cleanthes: Clothing, women and men — **Clothing, women and men**Loose suits, jeans, trainers, women’s power suits, sportswear, and urban subcultures create highly varied silhouettes.

State of technology: Personal computers, satellites, video, industrial robots, and expensive mobile phones exist, but the public Web does not yet.
Science and knowledge: Computing, genetics, climate science, cosmology, and medical imaging produce growing data and international collaboration.
Medicine and care: CT, MRI, transplantation, vaccines, and intensive care advance; the AIDS epidemic exposes both medical capacity and its limits.
Transport: Cars, high-speed rail, metros, aircraft, and containers globalize people and goods.
Agriculture and food: Machinery, chemical inputs, breeding, and cold chains support high yields with increasingly debated social and environmental costs.
Communication: Fixed telephones, fax, television, radio, and newspapers predominate. Email and computer networks remain mainly professional or academic.
Clothing and fashion: Loose suits, jeans, trainers, women’s power suits, sportswear, and urban subcultures create highly varied silhouettes.

Editions, translations, and provenance

The following carriers represent the text. They do not create new passage identities.

Ancient Greekcritical_fragment_carrier_greek_latin_ocr
English AI-generated translation, non-officialCodex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-14
French AI-generated translation, non-officialCodex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-14

Source manifests: cleanthes.svf_1

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